Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical

by Ethan Mordden

Overview

Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in the development of American musical comedy. Mordden's account features such show people as Florenz Ziegfeld, Harold Prince, Bert Lahr, Gwen Verdon, Angela Lansbury, Victor Herbert, Liza Minnelli, and Stephen Sondheim, and such musicals as Sally, Oh Kay!, Anything Goes, Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Follies, Chicago and countless others. It also includes an extensive discography -- the first of its kind -- which offers a virtually self-contained history of recorded show music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198020479
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1988
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	580 KB

About the Author

Ethan Mordden has taught at Yale University and is the author of eighteen books, including The American Theatre, A Guide to Orchestral Music, Opera in the Twentieth Century, and A Guide to Opera Recording.

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Broadway, 1900	3
1.	The Score	7
2.	The Urban Ethnic Emergence	22
3.	The Great Glorifier	34
4.	The Heroine	49
5.	The Top Banana	58
6.	The Book	72
7.	The New Style of Score	81
8.	The New Style of Heroine	108
9.	The Jazzmen	121
10.	The Choreographers	130
11.	The Musical Play	138
12.	A Newer Style of Heroine	153
13.	The Superdirectors	165
14.	The State of the Art	182
	A Selective Discography	197
	Index	239